12 Stoic Remedies for When Life Feels Heavy

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. I think this idea of the Stoics as having no emotions, being emotionless, having no heart, it totally misses it. It was actually the act of expressing the gratitude that was a gift to him. I try to remind myself constantly that this moment is enough.

That is the path to happiness and to greatness. Stoicism doesn't exactly come off as the happiest, lightest philosophy. And there's good reason for that. Life is hard. Life is difficult.

Life can break our hearts. Other people can break our hearts. And all of the Stoics experience this. They experienced depression and loneliness and pain and grief and anger and isolation and not being appreciated. All the things that we struggle with, the Stoics struggled with.

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